Atlanta,
GA – February 28, 2019 – Chatham Speedway will host one of its most exciting
and certainly most high-speed events of their 2019 racing season when, the United
Sprint Car Series Outlaw Thunder Tour presented by K&N Filters winged
sprint cars invade the one-third mile clay oval in Chatham, Louisiana. The USCS
winged sprint cars headline a two-night weekend of racing action entitled the
USCS “Bayou State Sprint Car Nationals” at the track on Friday and Saturday, March
8th and 9th for Rounds #7 and #8 of the 2nd annual USCS “Winter
Heat” mini-series. The events which be the first-ever for the United Sprint Car
Series in the state of Louisiana, will also be the 7th and 8th
events on the 64-event 23rd season schedule for the Atlanta, Georgia
based racing series.

The event is expected to draw some of the top winged-sprint car drivers from across
the Nation from at least ten states seeking warmer climates for the earliest sprint
car racing of the 2019 season. The USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour Winter Heat Series presented by FireAde event
continues over a month of racing opportunities for winged sprint car teams
including one more weekend beyond the Bayou State event for the 10-race USCS
Winter Heat Series at two tracks in Mississippi on the following weekend.

Three-time
NASCAR Cup Series Champion, Tony Stewart from Columbus, Indiana leads the current
USCS National and USCS Deep South regional series point standings coming into
the Chatham Speedway USCS event. Stewart, who has competed in all five of the
USCS Winter Heat 2019 events, so far, has one 2019 win with the USCS at
Southern Raceway on February 22nd. He additionally has two second place
and two third place finishes to top the standings. Davie Franek from Sussex, New
Jersey is second in the current standings just 11 points behind the points
leader. He also has a win on February 8th at bubba Raceway Park.
Mark Smith who was the 2nd winningest driver in the Nation during
the 2018 season, with 14 victories, has two USCS series wins at Bubba Raceway
park on February 9th and at the most recent USCS event on February
23rd at Southern Raceway. He is in third place in the current USCS
National and USCS Deep South regional standings.

Expected
entries for the inaugural USCS Bayou State Sprint Car Nationals also include,
Sprint Car Hall of Fame driver Danny Smith from Chillicothe, Ohio who won the USCS
Winter Heat Round #1 and USCS series 2019 season-opener at Hendry County
Motorsports Park in Clewiston, Florida on January 25th. Also pre-entered are 11-time USCS National
Champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee and his team-mate and two-time
USCS National Champion, Morgan Turpen from Cordova, Tennessee who is considered
by most as the top female sprint car driver in the Nation.

Other
expected entries include 2018 USCS National Champion, Jordn Mallett from
Greenbrier, Arkansas plus a former USCS regional series Champion and Rookie of
the Year, Johnny Bridges from Cherryville, North Carolina. At least two past USCS
Rookie of the Year drivers, Jake Knight from Georgetown, Mississippi (2018) and
2012 Rookie of the Year, Jeff Willingham from Ripley, Mississippi. 2019 USCS
Rookie of the Year points leader Bobby Tersillo from New York and the Father
and Son team of Jim and Mallie Shuster from Pennsylvania are also expected in
addition to a number of other drivers from across the nation.

The
United Sprint Car Series portion of the event will give a driver who can sweep
the weekend’s elements an opportunity to pick up their share of the nearly $25,000
in posted cash prize winnings plus contingency awards. Over $4,000 is possible
including Friday night’s preliminary 25-lap USCS sprint car main event win and
by also arriving first in the www.rockauto.com USCS Victory Lane
after Saturday night’s 30-lap Championship final as well.

Fans
attending the inaugural USCS Bayou State Sprint Car Nationals/USCS Winter Heat
Series event at Chatham Speedway will be treated to a full program of USCS
Outlaw Thunder Tour winged sprint car racing each night plus support divisions including
open wheel modified and stock car racing for an action-packed evening each
night.

Chatham Speedway is located at
14325 Highway 4, Chatham, LA 71226.The track race day telephone number is 318-381-7972.
For event info please visit www.chathamspeedway.com or
the speedway’s Facebook page at Chathem Speedway. The USCS series Official
website is located at www.uscsracing.com
The USCS phone number is 770-865-6097.

USCS
Media contact: Pete Walton 770-865-6097 and
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